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Site name | Woodyates |
Site number | 1049 |
Burial codes | 1003 1004 1009 1021 1023 1026 1028 1030 1035 1042 1044 1047 1051 1052 1053 1065 1075 1084 1092 1098 1104 1111 1112 1121 1128 1143 1151 1153 1181 |
100bc-AD43 | A settlement occupied from the Late Iron Age to Romano-British times, with a deposit of skull and long bones 'collected and buried' in the ditch. There was also one femur in a pit and skull fragments in pits and drains. There were 20 complete adult burials including one crouched male pit burial with a Claudian fibula, two fragmentary (?crouched) burials in the enclosure ditch, 6 extended burials in ditch graves and one extended in the enclosure bank. These may be of this period but five other burials were in the Romano-British cemetery enclosure and later. |
Remains/Period | Y1 |
County | Dorset |
Region | S |
National grid square | SU |
X coordinate | 20 |
Y coordinate | 190 |
Bibliographic source | Pitt-Rivers 1892, Hawkes 1947, Wilson 1981 |
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